Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter's award-winning crime thriller in verse, The Monkey's Mask, has become a modern Australian classic. Her other verse novels include Wild Surmise and What a Piece of Work, both short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award, Akhenaten and El Dorado. She has written libretti and song lyrics and seven volumes of poetry, most recently The Bee Hut. On Passion was completed just before her death in December 2008.